How to Use sweep out in a Sentence

sweep out

phrasal verb
Definition of sweep outnext
  • While two of them were able to get out of the water, two were swept out.
    — Bslovic, oregonlive, 26 Jan. 2023
  • The bangs in question were swept out towards the side of her face.
    — Liza Esquibias, Peoplemag, 27 June 2023
  • Kevin Durant, Beal’s teammate, has now been swept out of the first round twice in the past three years.
    — Danny Emerman, The Mercury News, 5 May 2024
  • The driver of the Jeep that fell off the cliff was swept out to sea about 100 yards and then directed back to shore.
    — Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 28 Feb. 2024
  • Instead, they may get swept out of coastal waters by floods.
    — Popular Science, 28 Sep. 2022
  • So, yes, if there is a repeat of 2021, when the Heat were swept out of the first round by Milwaukee, then, yes, red flag.
    — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 7 Jan. 2024
  • But the process sweeps out negations as well, meaning most LLMs just ignore them.
    — Max G. Levy, Quanta Magazine, 12 May 2023
  • Curry has never been swept out of the playoffs in his career.
    — Danny Emerman, The Mercury News, 5 May 2024
  • Both girls were then swept out by currents to an even deeper portion of the pond, the Maine Warden Service said.
    — Mirna Alsharif, NBC News, 10 July 2023
  • Could they have been swept out to sea after jumping into the Pacific to escape the smoke and flames?
    — Tim Arango, New York Times, 23 Aug. 2023
  • But that team got swept out of the Oklahoma State regional in Andy Stankiewicz's last season as head coach.
    — Richard Obert, The Arizona Republic, 27 May 2023
  • Despite having Shaq and Kobe Bryant on the roster, the Lakers had been swept out of the playoffs the previous two seasons.
    — Chuck Schilken, Los Angeles Times, 19 Sep. 2023
  • While attempting to save her sister, both girls -- ages 12 and 13 -- were swept out by the currents to a portion of the pond with even deeper water.
    — Teddy Grant, ABC News, 11 July 2023
  • Last year’s Caps pushed themselves into the playoffs by winning their 82nd game — and then were swept out by the faster, deeper, better New York Rangers.
    — Barry Svrluga, Washington Post, 4 July 2024
  • Espino and her uncle swept out the wet snow from the back and continued working, though there were barely any customers through the morning.
    — Christopher Cann, USA TODAY, 8 Jan. 2024
  • Andrew Friedman held a news conference a couple of days after the Dodgers were swept out of the postseason.
    — Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 25 Oct. 2023
  • Although Gregory was able to hoist himself back into the fishing boat, he was swept out to sea, his father said.
    — Emily Mae Czachor, CBS News, 7 Aug. 2023
  • For millions of years, salmon and steelhead built their lives around that water, being swept out to the ocean as youngsters and then, a few years later, swimming back upstream to their home streams to spawn.
    — Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 26 Sep. 2023
  • The other daughter also fell into the deeper water trying to rescue her sister and both were swept out to even deeper areas of the pond.
    — CBS News, 10 July 2023
  • The other daughter, who was trying to rescue her sister, also fell into the deep water and they were both swept out to deeper areas of the pond, the warden service said.
    — Francisco Guzman, USA TODAY, 10 July 2023
  • The most severe aspects of Idalia are currently expected to be swept out to sea midweek as a final cold front manages to push eastward through our region and off the coast.
    — A. Camden Walker, Washington Post, 27 Aug. 2023
  • Unfortunately, they’re snipped and clipped, jammed and rammed, dropped into the movie (and swept out of it) with an informational indifference that doesn’t even have the virtue of speed.
    — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 9 Nov. 2023
  • The only other pantheon-level player besides Curry to never get swept out of the postseason is Bill Russell.
    — Danny Emerman, The Mercury News, 5 May 2024
  • The scaffolding was erected against a building, but was swept out by the wind around 2 p.m., forcing emergency responders to divert traffic and pedestrians away from area.
    — Nathan Solis, Los Angeles Times, 6 May 2024
  • As with many other Conservatives, Smith acknowledged that his party will most likely be swept out of power Thursday.
    — Alexander Smith, NBC News, 3 July 2024
  • Then one of the most senior editors working in state television, he was swept out the door with all the other journalists committed to impartiality.
    — Lenora Chu, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 Mar. 2024
  • There is also a small window and a low chance the same stormy pattern driving Florida’s rain could develop into a tropical depression off the Southeast coast before it gets swept out to sea this weekend.
    — Mary Gilbert, CNN, 14 June 2024
  • For example, his government dissolved public media as the quickest way to resolve a leadership dispute and sweep out journalists installed by Law and Justice.
    — Lenora Chu, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 Feb. 2024
  • With several first-year starters on defense, Revolution coach Justin Bernard was thrilled to see his young group adjust to deny Lexington’s jet sweep out of an unbalanced formation, which had given them trouble all night.
    — Matt Doherty, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Sep. 2023
  • History The engineering concept was originally initiated in the Ancient Roman era – lead pipes were designed to channel clean water into its city and sweep out sewage.
    — Jade Lawson, ABC News, 19 Apr. 2023

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